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in the

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. The cove is entered between Isbul Point and Start Point. The feature is named after the town of

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in northern

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Location

Belene Cove is located at . British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1993 and Bulgarian in 2009.

Maps

* L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

Belene Cove.

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Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Belene Cove.
Copernix satellite image Coves of Livingston Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub